Mary Gallagher is an American
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
,
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
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novelist,
actress,
director and
teacher. For six years, she was
artistic director
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of Gypsy, a theatre company in the
Hudson Valley, New York, which collaborated with many artists to create site-specific mask-and-puppet
music-theatre with texts and lyrics by Gallagher. These pieces included ''Premanjali and the 7 Geese Brothers'', ''Ama'' and ''The Scottish Play''. In 1996-97, she directed the Playwrights Workshop at the
University of Iowa, and she taught playwriting and screenwriting at New York University/
Tisch School of the Arts from 2001 to 2010. She is a member of Actors & Writers, a theater company in the Hudson Valley, and the Ensemble Studio Theater in
New York City. She is an
alumna of New Dramatists, where she developed many of her plays and created and moderated the series, "You Can Make a Life: Conversations with Playwrights" from 1994 to 2001.
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Plays
Mary Gallagher’s plays ''Father Dreams'', ''Little Bird'', ''Chocolate Cake'', ''Buddies'', ''Dog Eat Dog'', ''Love Minus'', ''How To Say Goodbye'', ''De Donde?'' and ''Windshook'' have been published by
Dramatists Play Service and produced at such theatres as the
American Conservatory Theater
The American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) is a nonprofit theater company in San Francisco, California, United States, that offers both classical and contemporary theater productions. It also has an attached acting school.
History
The Ameri ...
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Actors Theatre of Louisville, Hartford Stage Company, the
Alley Theatre, the Main Street Theatre and the
Cincinnati Playhouse; in NYC at the
Vineyard Theatre,
The American Place Theatre, the
Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Women’s Project, HOME, the
Provincetown Playhouse and the
New York Shakespeare Festival; and in many other countries. "De Donde?" was published in ''American Theater'' in 1989. ''Windshook'' was published in ''New Plays from Act’s Young Conservatory Vol. I'' and ''Best Plays by Women 1996''. Many of Gallagher’s short plays are anthologized, including ''Perfect'', ''Sandwich'', ''Brother'' and ''Bedtime''.
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Screenplays
Her screenplays for Paramount, MGM, HBO
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, NBC, CBS, Lifetime
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Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
* Lifetime (band), a rock band from New Jersey
* ''Life Time'' (Rollins Band album), by Rollins Band
* ...
, and Showtime include ''Nobody's Child'' (CBS), co-written by Ara Watson and directed by Lee Grant ( Writers Guild Award, Emmy
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for Marlo Thomas); ''Bonds of Love'' (CBS), starring Treat Williams, Kelly McGilliss and Hal Holbrook (Best TV Movie of the Year, Banff International Television Festival); and '' The Passion of Ayn Rand'', starring Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren (born Helen Lydia Mironoff; born 26 July 1945) is an English actor. The recipient of numerous accolades, she is the only performer to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting in both the United States and the United Kingdom. ...
, Peter Fonda
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and Eric Stoltz
Eric Cameron Stoltz (born September 30, 1961) is an American actor, director and producer. He played the role of Rocky Dennis in the biographical drama film ''Mask'', which earned him the nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Support ...
, which premiered at Sundance
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and aired on Showtime (Emmy for Mirren, Golden Globe
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for Fonda). Gallagher was also a staff writer for '' Jojo's Circus'', a hit stop-motion animation show on the Disney Channel
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Fellowships and honors
She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
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, a Rockefeller Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Rosenthal New Play Prize, the Writers Guild Award, and three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Theatrical premiers
Most of these plays are in print and continue to be produced in the U.S. and other countries:
* Win/Lose/Draw (co-author Ara Watson) Spanish premiere, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2005.
* First Communion City Theatre, Miami, FL, 2004
References
External links
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American dramatists and playwrights
Living people
University of Iowa faculty
Place of birth missing (living people)
New York University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)